The Greeks and their past
Subtitle: poetry, oratory and history in the fifth century BCE
By: Jonas Grethlein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521110778
Subjects: Historiography; Sources; Greek poetry; Literature and history; History and criticism; Ancient Rhetoric; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In English, some Ancient Greek with English translations; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek.
Table of contents: title: Part I, Clio polytropos : non-historiographical media of memory. Epinician poetry : Pindar, Olympian 2 ; Elegy : the 'new Simonides' and earlier elegies ; Tragedy : Aeschylus, Persae ; Epideictic oratory : Lysias, epitaphios logos ; Deliberative oratory : Andocides, de pace; title: Part II, The rise of Greek historiography. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Epilogue : historical fevers, ancient and modern ; Appendix : Lengthy historical narratives in Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus.